Chapter 17.5 - Hidden Chapter
I am in the same bedroom but somehow there is something different… these are my initial thoughts as soon as I realize I am again, inside a dream.
Then, my eyes landed on the scene before me.
“No!” I shouted as I ran towards the bed where the man from dreams was lying, his hands holding a sword pointing to his chest.
“No!” But I was too late. He stabbed his heart with a silver sword in his hands.
Blood started pouring out of his chest.
He is dying.
“How could you?!” I said as I held his hand.
He looked at me, then moved one of his left hands to touch my face.
“You are real…” he said in a weak voice. “I have waited for you for millennia… but you never came.”
“I am sorry…” I said as I touched his face.
“I thought that day was just a dream, that I would be lonely forever…”
“I’m sorry, I am sorry…”
“It’s okay,” he said.
“You’re here now…” He smiled, then finally, he closed his eyes. I waited for them to open, but they never did.
He died in front of me.
“Why?” I shouted.
I finally opened my eyes. I looked at the couch where Gideon was sleeping, searching for any sign that he had been woken up by my nightmares.
He’s still asleep.
I sighed deeply and closed my eyes. I tried to remember what my dream was. I still couldn’t recall his face, but I could still feel the emotions I had inside the dream.
The feeling of him dying in my arms…
I had stopped having these dreams for a while since I had jumped into the river of hellfire, or maybe long before that. I couldn’t remember.
The question is why I am having these dreams again.
I thought, they were only a product of my subconscious mind… that I was only having them because of my secret relationship with Alaric.
But now, I don’t love him anymore. I even hate him. Just the thought of him makes me want to stab something.
So why am I having these dreams again?
Does this mean they are not just ordinary dreams?
Could they be a peak at my past life or a glimpse of my future?
I don’t know.
Maybe only time can tell.